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Oliver Collinge shares his expert insight

Business restructuring is like a visit to the doctor
For many Yorkshire businesses, trading conditions remain among the most challenging seen in recent years. Working alongside management teams at a variety of com...

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) faces an increasing problem of older tax debts which are harder to collect, according to a spending watchdog. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/Press Association)

'HMRC is dealing with older tax debts which are harder to collect'

Sky Blue Chinese Restaurant, in Barbican Road, York. Picture is from LDRS

Home Office bid to shut down restaurant in York after immigration raids

Library image of loan charge campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament. (Photo supplied by Loan Charge Action Group)

Loan Charge: MPs criticise IOPC for not conducting joint suicides investigation

Elizabeth Selby shares her expert insight

How good habits can help SMEs deal with change: Elizabeth Selby

Community amateur sports clubs, including village cricket clubs, can now file corporation tax returns online

Ad Feature More than 8,000 UK sports clubs can now file their tax returns online

Industry figures are calling on HMRC and regulators to use intelligence more effectively to catch payslip fraudsters who are cheating the public purse. (Photo by Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

Industry leaders say HMRC must ‘step up’ on payslip fraud

HMRC is inviting everyone with outstanding loan charge liabilities to take advantage of the new loan charge settlement scheme. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

HMRC offers loan charge settlements

Library image of Loan Charge Action Group (LCAG) protesters. In a letter to HMRC, LCAG said: "We have been informed that those affected by the Review are being sent letters informing them that they have 90 days in which to accept the revised amount, based on HMRC’s calculations, with extensions apparently available only in very exceptional circumstances. This is already causing additional anxiety and is also likely to make it more difficult for some people to reach an informed agreement with HMRC within the period allowed." (Photo supplied by Loan Charge Action Group)

HMRC apologises for letters sent with incorrect time limit

HMRC letter. Stock image. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

How to stay ahead of tax changes over surplus income: Sarah Coles

More than 436,000 sole traders and landlords across the UK have successfully sent their first Making Tax Digital for Income Tax quarterly update. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

HMRC pleased as 436,000 send tax updates digitally

Robert Bush pleaded guilty to 30 counts of preventing a lawful and decent burial over bodies found at his business, Legacy Funeral Directors, in 2024 (Scott Heppell/PA)

Funeral director breached families’ trust ‘on an industrial scale’

Library image of loan charge campaigners outside the Houses of Parliament. (Photo supplied by Loan Charge Action Group)

Loan charge: MPs welcome committee's call for answers

Ad Feature The legal way to cut the Inheritance Tax bill on a loved one's estate

Crown House, Crown Street, Halifax. Picture: Google

Halifax town centre office tower can be converted into 41 flats

Fraser Campbell - UK head of accounts and business advisory services at Azets. Azets has three offices in Yorkshire, in Leeds, Bradford and York, where it employs 335 people. (Photo supplied by Azets)

Two-thirds have failed to register for MTD, says Azets

Monika Bone is a York-based wills, estates and tax planning specialist at law firm Wilkin Chapman Rollits.

Families risk sleepwalking into pensions tax trap - Monika Bone

Southwark Crown Court (John Stillwell/PA)

Yorkshire-born barrister accused of £2m tax dodge worked for Diana

Simon Armitage shares his expert insight. Picture: Richard Townshend

EOTs remain an excellent option despite tax changes: Simon Armitage

Save Square Chapel for the People campaigners lobby Calderdale councillors on their way into the meeting

Yorkshire arts centre company subject to HMRC winding up order

NEGOTIATIONS: New Sheffield Wednesday owner David Storch (Image: Steve Ellis)

Storch's attempts to engage Chansiri saved Owls 15 points, says Kris Wigfield
Former Sheffield Wednesday administrator Kris Wigfield says the Owls' new owner David Storch was rewarded for trying to engage with previous owner Dejphon Chansiri, saying it was the reason why the Football League (EFL) agreed to drop a threatened 15-point deduction.
Stuart Rayner

Following a trial at the Old Bailey, Ahmadzai, now 28, was found guilty of murder and violent disorder.

Courts: £40m cigarette gang, attacker jailed, violent gang

Gang who smuggled 150 million cigarettes into the UK sentenced

Historians will surely recoil when they study the horrors of the loan charge, a catastrophically flawed policy which has been linked with 11 suicides and, according to new evidence uncovered by MPs, inflicted considerable costs on the taxpayer, says Greg Wright. (Photo supplied by Loan Charge Action Group)

Committee must probe catastrophic policy: Greg Wright

Library image of protests against the loan charge in Westminster. (Photo supplied by Loan Charge Action Group)

MPs call for Public Accounts Committee to probe loan charge

Inheritance tax changes are on their way.

How to prepare for the coming IHT shock

Tina Hughes shares her expert insight.

Personal Savings Allowance is frozen in time

Library image of Loan Charge Action Group campaigners outside Parliament. (Photo supplied by Loan Charge Action Group)

'All affected by loan charge should be offered same terms'

Kim Johnston shares her expert insight

How to prepare for 'Making Tax Digital'

A woman using a laptop to do online shopping. PIC: Tim Goode/PA Wire

Online shopping is being imposed on us - YP Letters

There is growing uncertainty surrounding Halifax's future. (Photo: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)

Halifax stripped of RFL membership as Championship crisis deepens

Halifax Panthers face an uncertain future. (Photo: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com)

Halifax Panthers plunged into uncertainty after High Court ruling
Halifax Panthers have been plunged into uncertainty after being hit with a winding-up order, marking another bleak day for the Championship.
James O'Brien

Black Sheep Brewery in Masham is under new ownership.

Black Sheep: Creditors to lose millions from administration

With the January 31 self assessment deadline days away, many organised taxpayers are feeling the pressure (Photos: Pexels)

A calm way to finish your self assessment tax return in the last days

HMRC is replacing automatic £100 fines for late self assessment with a penalty points system (Photo: Pexels)

New HMRC penalty points system replaces £100 self assessment fines

Even experienced, high-earning taxpayers make the same self assessment mistakes year after year (Photos: Pexels)

6 self assessment mistakes that cost high earners thousands every year

Members of the Loan Charge & Taxpayer Fairness APPG say they have warned about the known suicide risk linked to the loan charge since 2018 and written to HMRC and the Treasury many times. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

Eleventh suicide linked to controversial loan charge

Critics have claimed that the Government’s planned settlement for the loan charge scandal cannot be described as fair or comprehensive because several groups have been left outside it. (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire)

Planned loan charge settlement is 'not comprehensive'

Strong feelings: A loan charge protest outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London. The Labour Government has now pledged to take a “big step forward” in resolving the loan charge scandal. (Photo by Aaron Chown)

'More powers to tackle rogue tax advisers'

Chef Michael O'Hare pictured in 2015. Picture : Jonathan Gawthorpe

Top chef declared bankrupt following closure of Leeds restaurant

Praveen Gupta, UK Head of Tax at Azets.

Key tax dates for your diary in 2026

A customer pays for goods inside a shop. Christmas, Boxing Day, and the New Year can affect when benefits arrive, and the DWP and HMRC usually move payments to the last working day before a bank holiday (Photo: SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images)

When you’ll get your DWP and HMRC benefit payments over Christmas 2025

Penalty: Nationwide Building Society has been fined £44m. (Photo by Mike Egerton/PA Wire)

Nationwide fined £44m by watchdog

Owls boss Henrik Pedersen

Owls boss on Championship points deduction and update on duo

A new review has found people were hit with unfair bills, often inflated by decades of interest (Photo: Pexels)

£1,000s wiped for workers as tax scandal compared to Horizon explodes

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 25: General view outside the stadium prior to the Sky Bet Championship match between Sheffield Wednesday and Oxford United at Hillsborough on October 25, 2025 in Sheffield, England. (Photo by Cameron Smith/Getty Images)

Owls handed fresh points deduction - but why there is some hope going forward

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: Fans of Sheffield Wednesday are seen making their way to the stadium prior to the Sky Bet Championship match between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United at Hillsborough on November 23, 2025 in Sheffield, England. (Photo by George Wood/Getty Images)

Sheffield Wednesday hit with fresh points deduction from English Football League

Members of the Treasury team including Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Dan Tomlinson (left) alongside Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves ahead of the Budget (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Government announces £365m settlement package for loan charge victims

Sally Appleton shares her expert insight. Picture: Richard Townshend

Impending new import tax more than just hot air

People making money from Christmas crafts, seasonal market stalls, or selling festive items are being urged to check if they need to tell HMRC about their earnings. (Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Wire )

'Festive crafters may face New Year tax bill'

Christmas and New Year bank holidays can shift DWP and HMRC benefit payment dates (Photos: Getty Images/Pexels)

Your guide to early or adjusted benefit payments this Christmas

"The Budget is looming over us like a dark and malevolent threat, and scaremongers lurk in every corner, whispering terrifying tales about what it might hold in store," says Sarah Coles. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Keep calm despite ‘noise’ around Budget tax hikes: Sarah Coles

Steve Packham from the Loan Charge Action Group said: “It has now been exposed that many accountants and recruitment agencies had a direct role in the Loan Charge Scandal, along with promoters and rogue umbrella companies. There are thousands of people who are facing the Loan Charge simply because they took the professional recommendation of a chartered accountant or a recruitment consultant, who they often did not know was taking a commission for the recommendation" (Photo by Joe Giddens/PA Wire )

'Accountants and agencies were complicit in scandal'

The Government is reintroducing Direct Recovery of Debts (DRD), allowing HMRC to recover unpaid taxes from people’s bank accounts (Photos: Getty Images/Pexels)

HMRC may soon have access to some bank accounts after 2025 tax rule

Library image of a Tax Return (Self Assessment form) from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). More than 3.5 million people have already filed their Self Assessment tax return for the 2024 to 2025 tax year and with 100 days to the 31 January 2026 deadline, (Photo by PA/PA Wire)

'3.5m people have already filed Self Assessment tax return'

A major internet outage is affecting websites, apps, and online services worldwide (Photos: Pexels)

UK banks and HMRC payments may be delayed amid AWS internet outage

SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 04: Fans of Sheffield Wednesday hold up scarves in protest of Dejphon Chansiri, Owner of Sheffield Wednesday, during the Sky Bet Championship match between Sheffield Wednesday and Coventry City at Hillsborough on October 04, 2025 in Sheffield, England. (Photo by Jess Hornby/Getty Images)

Administration fears for Owls plus Henrik Pedersen on Dejphon Chansiri

Sheffield Wednesday are currently in a state of turmoil.

Owls reportedly set to be issued with winding-up order from HMRC

Stuart Wright shares his expert insight

Inheritance tax changes risk being killer of family firms

Will Voisey shares his expert insight

How firms can help their 'accidental fleet managers' to succeed

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